But just as he looked set to bag his fifth goal, the 20-year-old fell awkwardly, leaving him screaming in agony.

The Coventry and District Sunday League Premier One game was abandoned as both sides waited for an ambulance to take Connor, from Torrington Avenue, Tile Hill, to hospital, where X-rays showed he had broken his left thigh.

He has since undergone surgery to insert metal rods in to the shattered bone.

Connor said: “We were all over them in the game and we were chuffed with the score, and I was overwhelmed to have scored all four goals.

“Then in the second half the ball was knocked forward for me to go through and hopefully score my fifth goal, and as the ball rolled under my feet it must have happened then.

“I fell on the ground and was screaming like I have never done before. I had no intention of getting up and I knew it was bad from the sound of it.

“I couldn’t explain how painful it was but I didn’t know that it was actually broken.

“I could feel the pain and was just digging two holes in the mud with my hands and trying to hold on to people.

“Everyone at the hospital is shocked that it didn’t happen due to a tackle as it is the biggest bone in your body to break.

“I’m the sort of person that would say ‘that will never happen to me’ and then it did!

The injury is likely to affect Connor’s job as a lifeguard at the Xcel Leisure Centre, in Canley, but he is determined to get back on two feet as soon as possible.

“On the Sunday they had to line the bones back up and I was awake for that,” explained Connor. “Luckily I had gas and air - and a lot of it.

“I had to ask my girlfriend to leave when that was happening as I didn’t want her to see that.

“I had surgery on the Monday and then later in the week the nurse asked if I wanted to see the X-rays, so I said yes.

"But I didn’t realise I had to get up to go and see them, so I had to walk with a Zimmer frame.

“It will be a very slow process now and will be about taking baby steps again, but I definitely want to get back to full fitness again.”